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Spotify launches application for Nokia phones

November 24, 2009 in News Roundup

spotifytonokiaSwedish streaming software Spotify announced on Monday the launch of a music application for the Symbian platform, used by the world’s biggest mobile phone maker Nokia and other smartphones.

Only customers who subscribe to Symbian’s paying premium service will be able to download the software application onto their smartphones, the company said in a statement.

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Spotify iPhone app gets go-ahead from Apple

August 29, 2009 in News Roundup

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Apple has given the green light to the highly anticipated Spotify iPhone app, enabling users to access the popular music streaming site via their phone.

The move will allow premium subscribers in the UK, France, Spain, Finland, Norway and Sweden to download Spotify for free from the App Store.

The Spotify blog said, “Spotify on the iPhone will include many of the features our users enjoy on the desktop, with the added advantage of letting you listen to your playlists even when you haven’t a network connection, for instance when on a plane or the Underground.”

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Music streaming: the end for iPods? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent

June 15, 2009 in Features

I’ve just read an article on the Independent’s website called Music streaming: the end for iPods? And I’m intrigued. We7, Spotify, last.fm, iMeem, Pandora and Deezer – or even the recently deceased Spiral Frog – have you got your mind around the next big thing in online music yet?

They’re free, legal, and let you listen to just about any song, on any album, by any artist – ever. The Independent’s Rhodri Marsden says “Today, two new services – We7.com and Spotify.com – are battling to create the first “celestial jukebox”: a music streaming service that will, one day, allow you to choose any tracks from the history of recorded music  and listen to them, immediately, legally and for free.”

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